Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1875 — Page 2

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THE NEWS.

Ruaors of the Probability of a Great European War. Defeat of the Woman-Suffrage Bill in the British Parliament. lail-ltate fruit Kseonrei ii the Pesteffiee Beputait at VatkiaftM. President Grant Does Not Apprehend War With Mexico. Destructive Tornadoes In Illinois and Arkansas. Escape of two Thonsand Indians from the Cheyenne Agency. The Recent Election In Connecticut— Other Election Return*. Other Into renting News Items.

FOREIGN. Wilton, McLay & Co., metal merchant*, London, England, have suspended, owing, It is stated, to difficulties arising from their American contracts for rails. Their liabilities are estimated at $1,000,000. A Rome correspondent of the Paris Journal de* Debat* writes to that paper that the Pope will take up his residence in the United States if it should become impossible for him to remain in Rome, and it was with a view to such possible emergency that Archbishop McCloskey wag elevated to the Cardinalate. On the 7th |he public prosecutors at Liege, Brussels, commenced an investigation into the Duchesne plot for the assassination of Prince Bismarck. The bill to enable unmarried women to vote for members of Parliament was refused a second reading in the British House of Com mons, on the 7th, by a vote of 152 to 187. The Premier voted with the minority. Berlin dispatches of the Bth say that Herr Sigl, editor of the ultramontane paper Fafsrand, recently sentenced in contumaciam for publishing an article offensive to Bismarck, had been arrested by the Austrian authorities at Salzburg on the application of the German Government, and sent to Berlin. The Bishop of Breslau had refused to resign his see, and legal proceedings had been instituted to enforce compliance with the decree of the court The Government had announced its intention to prosecute the German subscribers to the Carlist fund, on the ground that they were fomenting a rebellion with a friendly power. Alarming rumors prevailed in Berlin, Vienna, Paris and Rome on the Bth, which a Berlin Ministerial journal of that date says portended war against Germany. The Bpanisb Government has decided to send 15,000 more troops to Cuba. All of the professors of the Madrid University who have protested against the recent reactiouary educational laws have been arrested and expatriated. The French Government has sent instructions to its Consuls to summon for the last time French subjects abroad who are liable to military service to have their names registered at the Consulates. A Madrid dispatch of the 9th says that Gen. Elio, a Carli6t General of distinction, had given in his adhesion to King Alphonso. Paul Boynton, the American,' started from Dover, England, on the morning of the 10th to cross to France in his life-preserving dress, and arrived at Boulogne in the evening. He was obliged to leave the water about five miles from France on account of the darkness and the boisterous weather. A Madrid dispatch of the lOthf says the Pres, idencyof the Madrid University has been conferred upon Le Fuente, the former editor of the Carlist newspaper. There was much dissatisfaction at the appointment. An Estella report is to the effect that the Carlists . had shot eight Alphonsist prisoners, on the 7th, in reprisal for the Carlists recently assassinated near Tafallaque.

DOMESTIC. President Grant is reported as having stated on the sth, in relation to the recent reported outrages of bands of Mexicans in Texas, that he could see no reason for apprehension of war between the two countries, but of course no one could tell what might be in the future. Nothing, however, would be done by this Government tp provoke such a result. Petitions from mothers, including hundreds of prominent ladies, have been presented to the Governor and Council of Massachusetts, asking that the sentence of Pomeroy, the boy-fiend, be executed, as a safeguard to children. A Yankton (D. T.) dispatch of the 4th announces the arrival there of two men named Owens, direct from the Black Hills, bringing with them several nuggets and particles of gold which they took out with an ax. Becoming satisfied that gold existed in paying quantities they left four of their number and returned for provisions and tools. A recent telegram from Key West, Fla., says there had been four cases of yellow fever there, but the disease had entirely disappeared. A twelve-year-old boy, son of Jacob Welker, of St. Paris, Ohio, was fatally burned on the sth by the explosion of a coal-oil can while he was attempting to hurry up a tire by pouring oil upon it Unusually cold weather, With a light fall of snowy vtas reported throughout the central portion of California on the sth. The Court of Claims at Washington has decided, in a cast recently brought before it, that the power vested in the President to pardon crimes does not authorise him to restore forfeited or confiscated property. Recent Washington dispatches report the discovery of numerous frauds upon the Postoffice Department in connection with mailroute bids. It seems Hut some of the clerks of the department have been in the habit of informing professional contractors of the lowest bids time for receiving proposals had expired, and then, by means of

counterfeits of official stamps, of subslitutiag later and lower bids. It is said the department has lost nothing by these transactions, tie substituted bids being in all cases lower than those regularly made. A New Tori dispatch of the 6th announces a general reduction In passenger rates from the East to Western poiats. Further strikes in the Pennsylvania mining regions were reported on the 7th, and others were expected. So many disturbances had occurred in some sections that the troops had been called on to assist in putting down any further outbreaks that might take place. A lot of giant powder stored in a frame building in San Francisco exploded on the 7th, blowing up s number of adjoining buildings and causing the complete destruction of a bonded warehouse in the vicinity, the walls of which were crushed in and the ruins set on fire. Several lives are reported lost. The lock-out of iron-workers at Pittsburgh, Pa., which had continued since last fall, virtually ended on the 7th, in favor of the workingmen. Two mills resumed operations on that day, and others were expected to soon follow the example. A destructive tornado passed over Edinburgh, 111., on the Bth. One church was crushed to atoms and five dwellings were blown down. Some twenty young ladies and gentlemen and children were in the church at the time the wind struck it, and ail of them were more or less injured, many of them quite seriously. On the same evening a similar visitation was experienced near Little Rock, Ark., by which trees were uprooted and seven houses destroyed. A Mrs. Jones was killed and her two daughters seriously injured. At an early hour on the morning of the 9th a band of strikers attacked a company of militia near Hazleton, Pa., and a few shots were fired and slight wounds inflicted. A vote by ballot was taken on the 9th ia the several mines of the Delaware, Lackawana & Western Railroad Company of Scranton, to decide the question of a strike, and resulted in favor of work by a vote of 1,512 to 319. All of the property in New- York known to have been in the possession of Wm. M. Tweed at the time of his exposure, and which he passed into the hands of other parties, has been attached in the interest of the new $6,000,000 suit brought against him. Patrick O’Shea was hanged at St. Louis on the 9th for the murder of his wife in that city a little over a year ago. An official dispatch from the Cheyenne Agency to Gen. Pope, received at Leavenworth on the 10th, gives the particulars of the revolt at that agency on April 6. While the guards were attempting to iron one of the Stone Calf Indians, the prisoner broke away. The guards fired and hit him. This pro, yoked several shots from the camp of the hostile Cheyennes, causing great consternation. The hostile Indians, men, women and children, fled to tire Sand Hills. The friendly Indians stood true. Capt. Rafferty, in command of sixty cavalrymen, was sent in pursuit of the fugitives. He was reinforced by Gen. Neill with three companies. Owing to the depth of the sand the troops had to dismount and charge on foot. The Indians held their position in the Hills until night, and then retreated under cover of darkness. The troops were repulsed three times, with a loss of six mortally and ten slightly wounded. Gen. Pope at once started all the available troops from Hayes, Dodge, and North Fork cantonments to intercept the fugitive Indians, mostly unarmed.

PERSONAL. The President has appointed-E. C. Walker, of Michigan, to be Inspector of Indian Affairs. ' . Mr. Beecher’s direct examination was continued on the sth. He reiterated his emphatic denial of being the author of the letter of contrition, or of its expressions as reported by Mr. Moulton. He also denied the several asseverations of both Messrs. Tilton nd MouiJ ton that he had ever confessed even a minor offense in connection with Mrs. Tilton. In regard to the celebrated interview sworn to by Mr. Tilton as having occurred between the witness and Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, at which the paternity of one of Mr. Tilton’s children was in question, Mr. Beecher denied that any such interview ever occurred, and pronouucedthe story a " monstrous and absolute falsehood.” The trial of John D. Lee and others at Beaver, Utah, charged with participation in the Mountain Meadows massacre, has been postponed. The case of George Q. Cannon, for polygamy, has been appealed by the prosecution to the Territorial Supreme Court, and bonds of $5,000 given for his appearanee. Gen. Sheridan was at New Orleans on the sth, probably (says a telegram of that date) on account of the Mexico-Texas border troubles. Gov. Tilden, of New York, has pardoned James W. Ingersoll, sentenced in 1573 to live years’ imprisonment for forgery in the second degree. He was tried in connection with the Tweed ease. In his testimony on the 6th and 7tli Mr. Beecher continued his denialsof the evidence of Messrs. Tilton and Moulton, and gave his explanation of the letters which had passed between himself and Mrs. Tilton, denying that they had any hidden meaning which would warrant the construction put upon them by the prosecution, and claiming that they related chiefly to Mrs. Tilton’s domestic troubles and the defendant’s sympathy for her as her pastor and friend. The President, on the 7th, suspended IV. Ringgold, Postmaster at New Orleans, under the Tenure-of-Office act, and appointed John M. G- Parker in his place. A new suit under a recent act of the New York Legislature has been begun against William M. Tweed, to recover back $6,195,t57 which was paid out under the Board of Audit of 1870. - . P. T. Barnum, the great showman, was elected Mayor of Bridgeport on the sth. John Robinson, the well-known circus man, was defeated on the same day for the same office k> Cincinnati. ■ Congressman Wheeler arrived in Washington on the Bth, ert route for New Orleans, to aid in carrying out the terms of the Louisiana compromise. Count Marefaschi arrived in New York on the 7th from Europe, and soon thereafter fulfilled the mission intrusted to him by the Holy See of announcing officially to Archbishop McClbskey that the Holy Father had been pleased to confer on him the title and elevate him to the rank of a Cardinal of the Roman Church. In his direct examination on the Sth Mr Beecher continued his explicit denials of all the statements of the prosecution involving any criminality on his part in connection with the scandal. With regard to Mrs. Moulton, he says he was a frequent visitor at her

house, where he always, met with a cordial and ladyJlko reception from Mrs. Moulton. He asserted that he was net at her house on the 2d or 8d of Junej 1872, not| did he ever make a confession to Mrs. Moulton of criminal conduct such as charged in her testimony. Witness testified that at one of the interviews between him and Mr. Moulton, at. the house of the latter, iu January, 1871, when Mr. Tilton was threatening to publish a card relating to the scandal, Mrs. Moulton said to him (witness) that she did not believe the stories they were telling about him, and that she believed he was a good man. To this remark witness responded that he was a good man, she might be 6ure of that. The officers in charge of the approaching reunion in Chicago of the Army of the Republic have unanimously agreed to a resolution extending an invitation to “ ail the surviving soldiers and sailors of the late war throughout the country who regard the flag of the United States as the emblem of undividedand indivisible nationality” to meat with them on,that occasion. The reunion occurs on the 12th, 13th, 14th itnd 15th of May. Owing to the illness of Lawyer Beach, of the prosecution, the Beecher trial was adjourned on the morning of the 9th to the 12th. The President has appointed Richard Gibbs, of New York, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Peru. All attempts in the New York Legislature to pass an act enabling Mrs. Tilton to testify have failed, and further efforts will not be made. Dan Bryant, the-great minstrel performer, died at New York on the 10th, of pneumonia. Hon. Ben. Wade has written a letter declining to be a candidate for the Governorship of Ohio. He gives three reasons: First —His voice is so used up that he is not able to make a speech. Second —He has recorded an oath that he will never take the stump for, or in favor of, an office for which he is a cahdidate, and this oath alone would bar him. Third—He cannot well afford to take the position.

POLITICAL. . The State election in Connecticut occurred on the sth. The returns received up to the morning of the 6th indicated that Chas. R. Ingersoll (Dem.) is re-elected Governor by about 7,000 majority. The Congressmen elected are: First District, Geo. M. Landers, Democrat; Second, James Phelps, Democrat; Third, H. H. Starkweather, Republican; Fourth, Wm. H. Barnum, Democrat. State Legislature Democratic. The election in Cincinnati on the sth resulted in the success of the Democratic municipal ticket by majorities ranging from 1,000 to 6,000, Johnson, for Mayor, receiving the heaviest vote. At the election in Wisconsin on the 6th, Edward G. Ryan was chosen Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, without opposition. The Rhode Island State election was held on the 7th. There were three candidates for Governor and Lieutenant-Governor, and the vote was so divided between them that no choice resulted. The remainder of the Republican ticket for State officers is elected by between 11,000 and 12,000. The candidates for Governor were Henry Lippitt, regular Republican; Rowland Hazard, independent Republican and Prohibitionist, and Charles R Cutler, Democrat. The choice for Governor will depend upon the complexion of the Assembly, and will lie between Hazard and Lippitt. The municipal election in St. Louis on the 6th resulted in the election of the Democratic candidate (Barrett) for Mayor by a plurality of about 700. The balance of the Democratic ticket was also elected, the majorities ranging from 657 to 5,798. The vote in Connecticut at the recent election was as follows: For Governor—lngersoll (Deni.), 53,755; Greene (Rep.), 44,301; Smith (Pro.), 2,809; scattering, 114. Total, 101,009. Ingersoll’s plurality, 9,484; majority, 6,661. For Congressmen—Democratic candidates, 51,093; ‘Republican, 47,311; Prohibition, 1,909. Total, 100,313. The vote for Governor in Rhode Island was as follows: Hazard (Ind. Rep.), 5,717; Lippitt (Reg. Rep.), 5,341; Cutler (Dem.), 5,169.

Captive Among the Comanches.

A young Texan who was captured by the Comanche Indians about a year ago gave the following account of his experiences recently to a correspondent of the Galveston Hetcs: I was trying to get five beef steers back to the herd early one morning last May, when I was suddenly surrounded by about twenty-five Comanche Indians, and taken prisoner. This happened near sunrise. I was tied on my horse and carried some thirty miles that day. At night we arrived at a sort of camp, where we joined fifty more Indians, and I found they had another white man prisoner. I was not allowed to speak with this man, but I could see from the blood on his face and clothes that he was wounded. As soon as the Indians had kindled a fire and eaten some meat they began to torture this second prisoner, though for what reason I have never learned. They beat him with a cartridgebox strap with a large buckle ou the end of it, after stripping him of his clothes. They cut gashes ou him with knives. They sawed off his thumbs with an old cavalry saber, and mashed bis toes between a rock and the butt end of a carbine. After gouging out some of his teeth with a bayonet, and sticking cactus thorns in his flesh,’ they poured powder , in his ears and burnt it. All this time the man did not complain or cry out, as he probably expected by his fortitude to induce the Indians to spare his life. But in this he was mistaken, for they, finding that he did not complain at all these tortures, began to cut pieces of flesh out of his legs and back and eat them; or at least pretend to eat—l think they only chewed up the flesh and spit it out. Seeing that all of this torture did not make him cry out (for he had fainted), the chief stepped up with a sharp knife and cut out one of his eyes, and put a live coal of fire in the socket, and then put an end to his life with a knife. The Indians then had a grand dance. I was led to a small tree. I had no water or anything to eat for thirty-six hours. The next day about midday the party moved in a northwest course, traveling about twenty miles: and after this we moved in a northwest course about 300 miles, where we met several large parties of Indians, some of whom had been on raids in Northern Texas. I remained in that section of country with the Comanches, and was kept employed mostly herding ponies, and sometimes dressing deerskins and buffalo hides. My clothes were all taken away from me a few days after I was captured, and I had only* a Fair of drawers and a blanket afterward. often had to eat raw venison, and buffalo meat without salt. After I had been with the Indians some six months they ceased to treat me as a prisoner, and I

was allowed to go some distance from the camp, I think it was about the Ist of Febrflflry I left them. I was heading ponies, and waa allowed to ride one of the best ’Rithotit a saddle. The flecqfid night I took my buffalo-robe and used it as a saddle, filled a sack with dried meat, and struck for the settlements, which I reached toward the last of the month. I sold my horse and buffalo robe, and collected three months’ pay that was due me at the time I was captured; and now, with God’s help, I shall keep out of the way of the Indians hereafter.

The Constitution and Woman Suffrage Decision of the Supreme Court.

The recent decision of the United States Supreme Court in regard to the constitutional right of women to vote, as delivered by Chief Justice Waite, and unanimously concurred in by the other Judges of the court, is as follows: Miner vs. Hoppersatt; error to the Supreme Court of Missouri. This is the case presenting the question whether under the Fourteenth Amendment a woman, who is a citizen of the United States and of a State, is a voter in the State notwithstanding the provisions of the Constitution and the laws of that State confine the right of suffrage to men alone. It is said that women are citizens. They are persons, and are, under the Fourteenth Amendment, declared to be citizens of the State wherein they reside. But it did not require that amendment to make them such. They were before persons and people, and were not in terms excluded from citizenship by the Constitution. The Federal Constitution was ordained by the people of the United States, composed of the people of the several States, and whoever at the time of the adoption was one of the people became a citizen. All children of parents within the jurisdiction are themselves citizens. The Naturalization laws are reviewed to show that women have always been considered citizens the same as men; also the laws giving jurisdiction in Federal cases. It is then said that the Fourteenth Amendment did not affect the citizenship of any woman any more than it did of men, and thus Mrs. Miner’s rights do not depend upon it. She has also been a citizen from her birth, entitled to all the privileges, immunities, etc., of citizenship. The amendment prohibited the State in which she lives from abridging any of those rights. The right of suffrage is not made in terms one of the privileges of the citizen. The United States has no voters, and no one can vote for Federal without being competent to vote for State officers. The elective officers of the United States are chosen directly or indirectly by the voters of the States. The amendment did not add to the privileges or immunities of the citizen; it simply furnishes an additional guarantee for the protection of such as he already had. Nor is the right of suffrage coextensive with the citizenship of the States. When the Federal Constitution was adopted all the States but Rhode Island had Constitutions of their own, in not one of which were all citizens recognized as entitled to this right. And under all these circumstances it cannot be for a moment doubted that, if it had been intended to make citizens of the United States voters, the framers of the Constitution woul;’ have so expressed that intention, and not have left so important a change, in the condition of citizenship, as it then existed, to implication. But if further evidence is needed it is to be found in the provisions of the Constitution. If suffrage is .recessarily a part of citizenship, then the provisions of the Constitution which gave citizens of each State all the privileges and immunities of citizenship in the several States would entitle the @itizens of each State to the right to vote in the several States, precisely as the citizens of those States are. Other provisions, among them that relating to the apportionment of Representatives, were cited to the same point. But still again, after the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment it was found necessary to use in the Fifteenth Amendment the following language: “. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude.” The Fourteenth Amendment had provided against any abridgment of the privileges or immunities of citizens, and if the right of suffrage is one of them, why amend the Constitution further to prevent its being denied on account of race, color, etc.? The duty of the United States to guarantee to the State a republican form of government is discharged in protecting those governments which were recognized as being republican in form by the Constitution when adopted. The Governments of the States being then accepted, it must be assumed that they are such as are to be guaranteed. The admission of new States is then considered, and it is found that there is nothing to favor the idea that suffrage is a right of citizenship, but everything to repel it; also, the restoration of the States to the Union after the war, none of them having provided for female suffrage. Besides, a person who has simply declared his intentions to become a citizen of the United States may vote under certain circumstances in Missouri and other States, and this could not be if suffrage depended upon the right of citizenship. The court are unanimous in the opinion that the Constitution of the United States does not confer the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the Constitutions of the several States which commit the trust to men alone are not necessarily void.

Fac-Simile of the New Treasurer’s Autograph.

The Indianapolis correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial furnishes that paper with the following: “ Your readers may have some curiosity to know what kind of a signature will take the place of Gen. Spinner’s, and I herewith append Mr. New’s autograph

In plain English the above hieroglyphics mean “John G. New.”

P. T. Barnum's Latest Wonders —A Colossal Exhibition.

Harper’s Weekly devotes nearly two columns to explaining and extolling the great enterprise* with which P. T. Barnum is making historical his forty years’ career as the most liberal and darimr showman in the world. The statistics which Harper Brothere give us from authentic sources are nearly overwhelming. They make an ordinary head dizzy. Mr. Barnum has always boasted that he gave his patrons double their money’s worth, and his claims ase generally acknowledged ; but this time he seems to have far outstripped himself. Last year he obtained from the Connecticut Legislature a charter for “ The P. T. Barnum’s Universal Exposition Company,” with a capital of a million erf dollars; Mr. Barnum, who is President of the company, and Mr. Coup, his Manager, have 6 pent many months in Europe perfecting their plans. The object of this great company, as they announce, is to elevate amusements, divest them of all objectionable features, and thus render them worthy the patronage of the most moral and refined classes. They say that eventually they will have a score or more of exhibitions (traveling and permanent) in America and Europe, and they intend that their chartered title shall be a guarantee of the merits of whatever they bring before the public. The present season they have but two exhibitions. One is Mr. Barnum’s wellknown “Museum, Menagerie, Circus and Traveling World’s Fair;” the other is simply called “ The Great Roman Hippodrome.” Mr. Barnum seems to have devoted years to perfecting this great enterprise, and nearly one year of bis personal attention was paid to it in Europe. At an expense of several hundred thousand dollars he erected a great.hippodrome building in the heart of New York city, and under an outlay of over $5,000 each day he has run his establishment in New York for nearly a year. This Exposition Company are engaged to ship the entire Hippodrome to Europe next autumn; meanwhile they have undertaken the difficult task of transportingit entire to the principal cities in America. Harper's Weekly says: “The Great Roman Hippodrome will resemble a moving camp. There are 1,200 men, women and children in Mr. Barnum’s service, and the stock includes 750 horses and ponies, besides elephants, camels, English stag and stag-hounds, trained ostriches, lions, bears, tigers and other animals. For the exhibition of the menagerie and the various shows, displays and performances connected with the enterprises, two enormous tents, each 500 feet in length and 300 in width, have been provided, one of which will be kept in advance in order that no time may be lost by delaying in making ready. The question of transportation by rail—a very serious ene —was solved by the construction of 150 cars twice the usual length, built expressly for this purpose. Among them are a number of ‘horse-palace’ cars, constructed with commodious stalls, in which the horses can lie down and rest while on the journey and arrive at the place of exhibition quite fresh for the per. formanee. Besides moving the tents, animals and all other material in these Hippodrome cars, berths will be provided in those devoted to the personnel of the company for nearly all the employes. Besides the great exhibition tents, and stable tents for the horses and other animals. There is also attached to the company a large corps of blacksmiths and carpenters and builders, some of whom precede the show several days, to make ready for the exhibition by preparing the ground, erecting seats, etc. The dressing-room tents alone will cover more ground than an ordinary circus.

“ To move such an enormous establishment without hitch or delay requires the employment of clear-headed, practical men at the head of each department Everything is so arranged as to move with the smoothness and precision of clock-work. At the appointed hour the canvas will go up, the street procession will move, the performance will commence. When all is over, aud the great tent emptied, everything will be packed up by those detailed for the work, and the caravan, without the loss of a minute, will be on the move toward the next place of exhibition. “ The programme of performance will be varied ana attractive. Dbnaldsou will make daily balloon ascensions with a car large enough to contain a company of five or six persons, at a cost of about SSOO a day for this feature alone. Then there will be the ‘ Roman races’ in chariots driven by ‘Amazons;’ the ‘liberty races’ in which forty wild horses are turned loose in the arena, in exact imitation of the famous carnival races of Rome and Naples; ‘ standing races,’ in which the riders stand on bare-back horses; hurdle races for ladies; flat races by English, French and American jockeys; besides camel, elephant and ostrioh and monkey races. Another feature will be the exhibition of Indian life on the plains, in which the actors will be scores of Indians, with their squaws and pappooses. They will put up a genuine Indian encampment, hunt real buffaloes, give war dances, races, foot races against horses, exhibitions of daring horsemanship, lassothrowing. A band of Mexican riders, mounted on famous mustangs, will make a pretended attack on the Indian camp and give a mimic but faithful representation of the wild scenes enacted on the Western frontier. The Euglish stag hunt will be an exact picture of the sport itself, with a company of 150 men and women in full hunting costume, and a large pack of English stag-hounds. There will also be many other interesting and attractive features, the mere mention of which would make a small volume.

“ Mr. Barnum certainly deserves great credit for an enterprise which is calculated to afford a vast amount of innocent,-popular amusement; and although this gigantic venture involves an enormous outlay of money it will presept too many attractions not to be generally sustained.” Amazing as this exhibition seems from the description given by Harper's, we can say, from actual observation, tnat one ? feature is to be introduced into the traveling Roman Hippodrome more interesting and instructive than any other. It is the great procession known as “The Congress ofMonarchs.” The Harper's omitted mentioning this because, probably, they supposed Mr. Barnum would not dare incur the expense of transporting such an enormous affair through the country. But he will do so, and here is a brief description of this dazzling and bewildering exhibition, as given by a New York contemporary: * “Of all the gorgeous pageants the world ever saw the ‘Congress of Nations’ is the greatest, and. how the surpassing genius of even Barnum could 1 produce it is a wonder. The costumes are true to life, aud many of them are genuine, having been procured direct from the nationalities which they represent. The individuals employed to personate the historical characters have the most faithful resemblance to the originals in face and physique. Each nation finds its special portraiture in some kind of triumphal car, brilliantly bedecked with appropriate flags, emblems, colors and intricate devices, and all sorts of characteristics in the way of peculiar uniforms, animals, soldiery, attendants and music. Scores pfglistening gilded chariots illumine the arena with a halo of luster, as it were, and the display of royal splendor is far more imposing and impressive than words can describe, thrilling the auditor with unspeakable amazement and admiration. “ As the n ame of the grand Congress implies, it is a stupendous gathering of the Mouarchs of the universe, bringing in vivid view the living Kings, Queens, Rulers aid Potentates of the Dast nine centuries, culminating in an affecting finale so touching that it must awaken the emotions of a stoic. Her Majesty, the Qneen of England, heads the glittering column, surrounded by her royal court and followed by a long ancestral line, the notability and richly-uniformed “life guardsmen.” Then France, in the person of Napoleon the First and his famous Field Marshals; Ireland, Rome, Russia, Germany, Italy, Turkey, India, Japan, China, and so on, until all the Monarchs and Courts of the entire world pass in review, winding up like a jewel-besprinkled coil around the continuous 'circle. To look upon this beautiful .historical procession in all its grandness and greatness is equivalent to sitting in full view of the courts of all the earth, so truthfully realistic are the bewildering pictures revealed in rapid succession. Such a dazzling half mile of solid gold, jewels, silver, precious stones and tin'

•tel could only be produced after ve&rv preparation and the expenditure of a dozen competencies. Any attempt at imitation on the part of ambitious and unscrupulous showmen for yean to come will result 'ln the most inglorious failure. None other than the ‘ Prince of Showmen’ himself would undertake it, and none other than the great and irrepressible Barnum could achieve so signal a triumph.” This entire exhibition is advertised to exhibit in New England in May, York, etc, in June, Chicago early in July, Ohio, Illinois and Michigan in July and August. It is due to our readers that we inform them that Mr. Barnum announces that certain imposters in Cincinnati have copied his bills, posters, cuts and advertisements, and with a few broken-down circus horses and wagons will precise his exhibition in the West, and by announcing the Great Roman Hippodrome will attempt to make the public believe that it is his unrivaled establishment. He cautions the public against being thus deceived, and reminds them that it would be impossible with any amount of money to organize and equip even a semblance of his establishment without a preparation of several years. The Cincinnati Daily Enquirer Of Feb. 27, 1875,jsays that this pretended “ Hippodrome” is simply the “ wreck Of that stupendous fraud known as the Great Eastern and Great Southern Circus and Menagerie combination, which exploded at Selma, Ala, the 16th of last November, a number of horses having to be sold to pay the expenses of shipping the show to this city, where the proprietors left a number of their employes unpaid and penniless, and vamosed. Who the real proprietors of the business were still remains a matter of considerable mystery, but it is generally believed that Andy Haight, one Gibbons and George Weber and others were large stockholders. The defrauded circus men “and others connected with the concern finally obtained the aid of the law to compel a settlement of their just claims, and the whole matter ended in the show being attached at Hamilton, and in an auction sale of the circus property at Lebanon yesterday afternoon. “ The best of the joke is that De Haven, Webber,. Gibbons and others are about to reorganize a Hippodrome out of the ‘ wreck’ to start out with next summer on another tour. “ The whole show Was rather a poor concern, only a few lions being in good condition, and the menagerie including no really rare or valuable animals.”

Our readers have only to use ordinary caution to discover which is the real and which is the bogus concern, though we see that Mr. Barnum complains that some shows obtain an employe named Barnum, and then adverse “ Barnum’s latest enterprise,” and resort to other devices wherein they use the name “ Barnum” to deceive the public. He 6ays that all exhibitions with which he is connected will give his initials, “P. T,” and also publish his portrait by way of identification. To he forewarned is to be forearmed. “A word to the wise is sufficient.” As Mr. Barnum’s great Hippodrome travels under an expense of nearly 810,000 each day it can exhibit only in large cities. These can be reached by cheap excursion trains. Mr. Barnum says he can easily lose half a million of dollars by this summer’s experiment, and that in any event he shall not bring back his Hippodrome from Europe. It is patronized aud approved by the clergy and religious classes, as well as by school-teachers and all heads of refined families who desire their children to improve their minds under this great system of “ object-teaching.” Beyond aH question this is the most extensive and extraordinary exhibition on the face of the earth, and probably this generation will “ never see its like again.” —Dr. Prideaux states that in fifty battles fought by Caesar he slew 1,122,000 of his enemies. If to this number we add the loss of troops on his own side and the slaughter of women and children on both sides we shall probably have a total of 2,000,000 of human beings sacrificed to the ambition of one man! If we assign an equal number to Alexander and the same to Napoleon, which we probably may do with justice, then to three military butchers we may ascribe the untimely death of 6,000,000 of the human family. —Estimating ice to be worth half a cent a pound, or ten dollars a ton, the ice crop of 2,000,000 tons just harvested on the Hudson, is more valuable by $2,000,000 than either the wheat or the corn crop of the entire State of New York.

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